From information kindly provided to us by Nick Beeley, this man can now be identified as:

Webb, James Francis, Private, 40705, 9th Battalion, Norfolk Regiment
Born Hathersage, Derbyshire
Enlisted Melton Constable, Norfolk
Killed in action 23rd April 1917 aged 31
Son of Ernest and Alice Webb, of Hathersage, Derbyshire; husband of Daisy Annie Webb, of 51, St. Mary's Rd., Watford, Herts.
Buried in Vermelles British Cemetery, VI, B, 14

1911 Census
A domestic footman
A servant in the household of Edward Simon Marcus, a stockbroker, of 3, Orme Court, Bayswater, Middlesex

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